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Characterization of suicidal behaviour with self-organizing maps.

José M Leiva-Murillo¹, Jorge López-Castromán, Enrique Baca-García

¹Department of Signal Theory and Communication, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avenida Universidad 30, 28911 Madrid, Spain. jose@tsc.uc3m.es

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This study used self-organizing maps to analyze over 8,000 individuals and identify key risk factors for suicidal behavior. Key factors include mental disorders, alcoholism, impulsivity, and childhood abuse.

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Area of Science:

Psychiatry and Data Science

Background:

Understanding suicidal behavior is crucial across social, medical, and economic domains.
Identifying relevant variables is challenging due to the complexity and potential nonlinearity of their relationships with suicidal behavior.
Large-scale data analysis is necessary for conclusive findings in suicide research.

Purpose of the Study:

To describe a novel method using self-organizing maps (SOMs) for identifying key variables in suicidal behavior.
To apply this method to a large cohort dataset to uncover significant risk factors.
To explore nonlinear relationships between variables and suicidal behavior.

Main Methods:

Application of self-organizing maps (SOMs) for dimensionality reduction and pattern recognition.
Analysis of a large cohort comprising over 8,000 subjects and 600 variables.
Identification of distinct clusters representing groups of risk factors associated with suicidal behavior.

Main Results:

Discovery of four primary groups of variables implicated in suicidal behavior.
Identification of mental disorders, alcoholism, impulsivity, and childhood abuse as significant risk factor categories.
Characterization of specific subpopulations of suicide attempters based on these risk factors.

Conclusions:

The SOMs method effectively identifies key variables in complex datasets related to suicidal behavior.
The identified risk factor groups align with existing medical knowledge on suicide.
This research offers a new pathway for improving the management of suicidal cases through subpopulation identification.